Some really dangerous fault areas are well away from the west coastal
faults. You tend not to get many quakes, but when they happen, big
stuff moves a lot. With the exception of the New Madrid and one near
Yellowstone Montana, I can't think of one that has done much since
pilgrim times. If the Moab ever lets go, you might even feel it as far
away as you are.


Earle Horton proclaimed:

> Another reason to live in Colorado. Not even a tremor since I have been
> there, and just enough geo-thermal action to fuel a few hot springs for the
> tourists. There are, of course, four or five avalanche chutes visible from
> my house, but to my knowledge no one in recorded history has been caught in
> one. Unless you count the Town Trustee who got a DUI last spring, for
> walking around on top of a fresh slide, too stubborn to back off when the
> road crew told him it wasn't safe.
>
> Earle
>
> "L.W. (ßill) Hughes III" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>>Hi Bill,
>> The major fault, the San Andreas of is opening the gulf of
>>California and the west side is sliding north for San Francisco. In
>>northern California north the west plate is sub ducting to fire the
>>volcanos through Washington. In the thousands of earthquakes we had the
>>San Andreas hasn't moved in over a hundred years meaning we'll have an
>>eight pretty quick.
>> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
http://www.billhughes.com/
>>
>>Billy Ray wrote:
>>
>>>I am trying to remember my college physical geography. Is a new
>
> mountain
>
>>>range in formation or is one plate just over-riding the other?
>>>
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